History's Just Been Made For Sale To

The Flame Is Not Out, But It Is Flickering.

Nothing In Our Daily Life Offers More Of The Comfort Of Continuity, The Generational Connection Of Belonging To A Vast And Complicated American Family, The Powerful Sense Of Home, The Freedom From Time's Constraints, And The Great Gift Of Accumulated Memory Than Does Our National Pastime.

The Reason Why You Do History, And Particularly Why You Do War, Is That You Want To Make Sure That In The Next War, Some Lessons Were Learned. There's A Saying: "history Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "what Has Been Will Be Again. What Has Been Done Will Be Done Again." Human Nature Always Superimposes Itself - Its Strength And Its Frailty Over The Rush Of Chaos Of Ongoing Events - And We Can Perceive Patterns And Themes And Motifs.

I Wake The Dead. I Bring Jackie Robinson And The Roosevelts To Life. Who Do You Think Im Trying To Wake Up?

I Think My Expectations For Myself Are Much More Severe And Much More Direct. You Can't Work On A Film For Six Years Without Being Your Own Toughest Critic. So You Can't Really Be Distracted By The Expectations Based On Your Previous Performance.